David Hayes

David Hayes is a co-founder of openDemocracy. He has written textbooks on human rights and terrorism, and was a contributor to Town and Country (Jonathan Cape, 1998). His work has been published in PN Review, the Irish Times, El Pais, the Iran Times International, the Canberra Times, the Scotsman, the New Statesman and The Absolute Game. He has edited five print collections of material from the openDemocracy website, including Europe and Islam; Turkey: Writers, Politics, and Free Speech; and Europe: Visions, Realities, Futures. He is the editor of Fred Halliday's Political Journeys - the openDemocracy Essays (Saqi, 2011)

Barack Obama: hope, fear... advice

We asked some of our authors around the world to respond to the following: "About the Barack Obama administration, please tell us: 1 one thing you hope for 2

By David Hayes

/ 21 Jan 2009

The politics of ME, ME, ME

The conflict in Gaza has dominated world headlines since the closing days of 2008. The war there is an exceptional event yet it also contains many elements of the familiar

By David Hayes and Keith Kahn-Harris

/ 9 Jan 2009

The world's American election: a conversation

The United States presidential election has provoked huge attention in the rest of the world. But there are different kinds of engagement. Some are explored on the day of the

By David Hayes

/ 4 Nov 2008

A politics of crisis: low-energy cosmopolitanism

There are signs that the global financial crisis is giving some solace to forces of the political left. No wonder, for the left has been delivered a plausible story that

By David Hayes and Andrew Dobson

/ 26 Oct 2008

France's troubled Afghan role

The escalating war in Afghanistan has been rising up the international agenda in parallel with evidence of the Taliban's increased sophistication and effectiveness. Paul Rogers has been tracking

By David Hayes

/ 16 Sep 2008

Japan: suicide by drowning

A small ad in the British journalists' trade magazine the Press Gazette has always stayed in my mind. It was placed by a freelancer in Tokyo seeking commissions. The

By David Hayes

/ 8 Sep 2008

Russian war, Georgian democracy

What is the war between Georgia and Russia about? Ghia Nodia, theminister of education in Georgia, wrote in his first openDemocracyarticle (“The war for Georgia: Russia, the west, the future”

By David Hayes

/ 23 Aug 2008

Authority, credibility and openDemocracy

Everyone approaches the themes of this conference from a particular professional experience and angle of vision. In my own case they are a role at openDemocracy which involves commissioning and

By David Hayes

/ 13 Jun 2008

Kosovo declares independence

Convened in an extraordinary meeting on February 17, 2008, in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, Answering the call of the people to build a society that honours human dignity and

By David Hayes

/ 17 Feb 2008

What kind of country?

Britain on 7 July 2005 became a different country. The four coordinated (and “homegrown”) suicide-bombs on the London transport network that killed fifty-two innocent people and injured more

By David Hayes

/ 7 Feb 2008

A world in contraflow

The fact that history is lived forwards and understood backwards keeps journalists and historians in business, but can also offer them convenient escape from the responsibility to engage with the

By David Hayes

/ 3 Jan 2008

The world in 2008: a year and an era

* Ivan Krastev - KA Dilday - Rajeev Bhargava - Kerry Brown - Mariano Aguirre - Roger Scruton - Ramin Jahanbegloo - Ivan Briscoe - Nasrin Alavi - Keith Kahn-Harris - Krzysztof Bobinski - Becky Hogge - Mary Kaldor - Michel Thieren - Chukwu-

By David Hayes

/ 28 Dec 2007